Heart-Shaped DIY Bath Confetti with Essential Oils – Easy DIY Valentine’s Day Gift Idea!

Making your own bath confetti is a fun DIY Valentine’s Day gift idea!

Today I’m going to show you how to make dissolvable little confetti in the shape of hearts! Great gift idea to give to a mom who needs to relax in a bath, or for kids to play with in the tub! You could even use this as a party favor for a bridal shower!

This real confetti is made out of really cool paper that dissolves in water. You brush on color, essential oil scent and liquid soap to the paper, punch it out when it dries, and you’ve made yourself dissolvable bath confetti!

See the full tutorial below on how to make yours!

How To Make Heart Shaped DIY Bath Confetti with Therapeutic Essential Oils:

• Paper Solvy
• Liquid Castile Soap
• Pure Essential Oils – I used lavender and rose (you could also use fragrance oil or botanical extracts)
• soap colorants
• heart shaped paper punch – 1 inch (you can use any shape of scrapbook paper punches for your own pattern designs.)
• 2 bowls
• sponge paint brush
• storage jar (old baby food jar) with decorative washi tape (optional). Plastic bottles are also an option.

How Do You Make Bath Confetti?

Good news – it’s really easy to make bath confetti! Here are the steps:

1.  You will need 2 small bowls to mix your liquid soap, colorant, and essential oils in. I used one for the lavender-scented liquid purple-dyed soap and the other for the rose-scented pink-dyed liquid soap. Start by adding 2-3 tablespoons of castile soap to your bowls. This will create the natural blends that you will put on the dissolvable paper. I wanted to use all-natural ingredients, including essential oils safe for sensitive skin.

2. Then add about 20 drops of rose essential oil to one bowl and lavender to the other. I want my hearts to be two different colors – but you could just make one color heart and blend the essential oil scents in one bowl if you prefer. Or choose from your own random sampling of colors.

3. Then it is time to add some color to your scented liquid soap. I added 2 drops of red soap color to the rose-scented soap and two drops of red and two drops of blue to the lavender-scented soap.  Stir them together until well blended. I chose to use soap colorant rather than food coloring because I didn’t want food coloring to color my skin while I was in the bath.

4. Now it’s time to get your paper solvy dissolvable paper and paint it with your colored and scented liquid soap. I painted a thin layer of the soap mixture on the front and back of two sheets of paper – one for pink rose and the other the purple lavender. Be sure the paper gets fully saturated (with multiple thin layers if needed) with the liquid soap mixture.

5. Grab a drying rack or cookie sheet and leave these out to dry for a few hours.

6. When each sheet of paper is fully dry, you can get your paper punch and start creating your dissolvable heart bath confetti! Make as many punches as you can out of each sheet of paper.

I think these are so cute and will be so much fun for a Valentine’s Day bath! Mom’s – don’t feel bad if you make these just for yourself and enjoy some relaxation during your next bath, filled with nice smelling warm water! When you are done with your bath, continue nourishing your skin with natural nourishing ingredients like shea butter, cocoa butter, or coconut oil.

I put DIY Bath Confetti with Essential Oils in an old baby food jar for easy gifting and storing. You can store in any jar or reusable bags though, as long as the container is airtight. Any humidity will make the papers stick together and ruin the shapes. If giving as a gift, you could spray paint the baby food jar top (I did gold) and wrap it in some iridescent cellophane gift wrap sheets. Next time I make these, I want to experiment with different shapes and essential oils.

This is a perfect gift idea for diy hobbyists!

How Does The Paper In Bath Confetti Dissolve?

A few of you have asked what the paper is like when it dissolves. I took a quick picture of a few of the leftover strips of paper with the hearts punched out of them. Once it gets wet, it quickly turns into a pulp that the wetter it gets, it just dissolves completely and washed down the drain.

It’s actually pretty cool stuff – and I’m sure your kids will love to play with it during bath time! Or enjoy it yourself during your next soak!

When you are ready to use them, sprinkle a handful or two into the bath and you’ll see how quickly it dissolves! It will add a touch of castile soap and essential oils to your bath that will make it more relaxing and fun!

You’ll get some extra bubbles and essential oil aromas in your bath. These are easy and fun to make and are an easy bath confetti gift idea!

Looking for more DIY gift ideas? Check these out (combine a few of these for a wonderful gift basket – especially as a DIY Valentine’s Day gift idea!):

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